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The code as is will not compile under Minix 2.0.2. For one thing, all the files have DOS-Windows style character endings, so the UNIX makefile will need to be smart enough to strip these out during the build process. Additionally, Minix cc runs out of memory when trying to compile actors.c. I'm sure that many, many more problems exist.

We currently include a uudecode utility written by David S. Peterson for use with our DOS makefiles. This is a copyrighted piece of code, with permissions to share if the source code prolog is included. We should develop our own uudecode utility from scratch, or find one in C or ASM source under an OSS license.

I'd rather just write my own uudecode utility, if just for the exercise. Then I can ship it as source code, and configure the DOS makefiles to first build that executable from source and then use it to decode the files.

In a previous commit, I updated the dtextc.uu files so that they would work on my Linux laptop. I did this by taking the (known good) DTEXTC.DAT file from a binary MS-DOS install of the "dungeon 2.7s" code, using Linux's uuencode utility to encode it, and then using Linux split to break it into four pieces:

cp DTEXTC.DAT dtextc.dat
uuencode dtextc.dat /dev/stdout | split -b 51072
cat xaa xab xac xad | uudecode > dtextc.dat
mv xaa dtextc.uu1
mv xab dtextc.uu2
mv xac dtextc.uu3
mv xad dtextc.uu4

When I tried verifying these still worked under a Borland C++ PC-DOS build, I got the following error:

        copy dtextc.uu1+dtextc.uu2+dtextc.uu3+dtextc.uu4 dtextc.uu
DTEXTC.UU1
DTEXTC.UU2
DTEXTC.UU3
DTEXTC.UU4
        1 file(s) copied
        uudecode dtextc.uu
uudecode: DTEXTC.UU: no "begin" line

** error 1 ** deleting dtextc.dat

When I had been trying to use the original UU files under Linux uudecode, the resulting dtextc.dat produced unreadable garbage text in dungeon.